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244 Cannon and bayonet

In the Prussian army, from generals to privates, they all thought that the Black Dragon Legion that rushed up was a line-by-line infantry team, but they did not expect that they were part-time grenadiers!

At this time, the distance between the two sides was only 20 steps away. The guard infantrymen only needed to rush forward a few steps away and struggled to throw their arms away. These guard infantrymen, which were equivalent to those of strong men among humans, could throw grenades into the Prussian private team!

In fact, the guard infantry did the same!

When the first batch of grenades fell into the battle line of Prussia, the only remaining shooting among the Prussian privates came to an abrupt end, and the continuous explosions and smoke completely enveloped the entire battle line of the Prussian army.

The Prussian general behind closed his eyes in despair, knowing that the first wave of frontal attack had completely collapsed.

"Send the reserve team to cover our offensive team and withdraw safely, and don't fight.

Move the artillery forward, prepare for shotgun shooting, and intercept the pursued enemy infantry!

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The Prussian generals who were in charge of command were ordered in an orderly manner. After all, the Prussian army had an advantage in military strength, and they were far from defeated.

The determination of the Pu'Austrian coalition forces to attack this time was much higher than the first time. The disastrous defeat of the Valmi Battle gave the Pu'Austrian coalition forces "inspiration".

In the French region where revolutionary enthusiasm is high, we cannot take the idea of ​​withdrawing from the land after failure. No matter how intact the team is, we will be chased by spontaneous French militias on the way to retreat!

Yes, in the Battle of Valmi, not many people died in the frontal battle of the Pu'Austrian coalition, and most of the damage was pursued and raided while retreating.

This time, the Pu'Austrian coalition had more troops and more firepower, and he entered the French mainland with the belief of winning.

Before the smoke of gunpowder had dissipated, the Prussian battle line in the attack collapsed, and then the wildly charged shouts of guard infantry soldiers sounded.

"Get the bayonet and charge for Lord Li Wei!!!"

"Long live Lord Li Wei!

The Black Dragon Legion will win!”

The loud slogans that followed made the defeated Prussian soldiers break their hearts. They wished that their parents would give them two more legs so that they could get rid of the enemy like a cheetah.

In order to reduce the burden, many Prussian privateers abandoned their muskets and ammunition bags. Even if they did so, they would be punished extremely severely when they returned to the barracks.

In the face of life and death, everyone can no longer care about so much.

However, the physical fitness of the guard infantry was significantly higher than that of the Prussian private. He charged and even though the Prussian private was defeated, thousands of people were knocked down by the guard infantry in just a few minutes!

The guard infantry charged and shouted in French in "Surrender and not kill"...

It’s a pity that the Prussian Private couldn’t understand French!

The language barrier became the culprit for the Prussian privates being killed by guard infantry...

Fortunately, some Prussian soldiers were more flexible in their minds or had already accepted their fate. They knelt on the ground and abandoned their weapons and raised their hands to express their surrender, and kept shouting German that the guards' infantry did not understand...

Levi's Black Dragon Legion was brainwashed and trained by the French, so they naturally couldn't understand German in the Prussian population!

However, this internationally common gesture of surrender can still understand the guard infantry. Many Prussian soldiers kneeling on the ground with their hands raised and found that the evil Black Dragon Legion soldiers were passing by them, and gasping for breath as if they had survived the disaster.

Not tired, but scared!

The speed of the guard infantry's pursuit once again exceeded the imagination of the Prussian generals. If one or two people had the running speed of the guard infantry, the Prussian generals might praise it, thinking that these or two people were good seedlings for joining the army and had great physical fitness!

I even joke that the other person's wife will be so happy that she will be so happy that she will break away with such a great husband...

Women are a topic that will never go out of date among men!

However, thousands of enemy soldiers have the running speed at this level, which is a bit scary!

This is like in the world in Li Wei's previous life, the unemployed young man from the next door ran out of the world sprint champion Bolt at the same speed. It's surprising. What if all the neighbors around could run at this speed?

Well, that might be a horror movie...

For the current Prussian generals, their hearts were so turbulent that they could not calm down.

More than 80% of the soldiers in the Prussian battle line responsible for the attack failed to run to the battle line of our reserve team!

You should know that the defeated soldiers often run away faster than the pursuers, which is common sense!

Because the defeated soldiers do not need to maintain their formation, they can let go of their feet and run wildly, and even throw away their weapons and equipment and other loads!

Now, this common sense has been broken by the Guards infantry...

Perhaps the French people have become accustomed to the abnormal collective physical fitness of the Black Dragon Legion soldiers, but this is the first time the Prussians have seen it!

Soon, the guard infantry chasing saw the dense bayonet battle lines ahead. The number of reserves coming to rescue from Prussia was no less than the first wave of the attack. In order to prevent accidental injury of their own defeated soldiers, they did not shoot, but just stepped forward slowly in the form of a bayonet jungle. The defeated soldiers passed through the gaps between the small square formations of each company.

Behind the bayonet formation of the reserve team, there were artillery guns being pushed forward by the Prussian artillery yelling.

The guard infantry, who was chasing, saw such a dense jungle of bayonets, knew that they could not rush in with their personal courage and would be stabbed into a sieve if they could not perform their bayonet fighting skills. Therefore, the guard infantry began to reorganize their teams under the orders of the officers.

After the guard infantry completed the entire team, all the remaining Prussian defeated soldiers were rescued, and the Prussian reserve team no longer moved forward, but stayed in place, staring at the Black Dragon Legion that was a little too close to a hundred steps away.

Just when the Prussian generals thought the Black Dragon Legion was going to continue the attack, the guard infantry that had just completed the entire team suddenly cracked!

From many gaps in their military formation, a field cannon with shotguns was pushed out, scaring the soldiers of the Prussian reserve team to collectively silence.

The officers of the Prussian reserve team had no time to change the formation, and they heard a series of bombardment suddenly sounding from the opposite side, including mortars placed in the back row and fired in a parabolic manner!

These mortars are not old-fashioned. After Li Wei entered Paris, he took over all the arms of the former revolutionary army in the country's rescue. The old mortars that were not even as good as musket range were naturally eliminated, or were rebuilt or simply destroyed!

Although the range of the mortar cannon used by the Black Dragon Legion is not comparable to that of the later mountain cannons, at least the effective range is farther than that of the musket, which is enough to carry out parabolic attacks on the enemy beyond the musket range.

This is actually the mainstream mortar in Europe today!

The sprayed shotguns formed a fan-shaped line to bring together the Prussian reserve team, bursting out terrible gaps, each of which was several or even dozens of lives!

The person hit by the shotgun seemed to have been perforated all over his body, and even the injured basically had no need to rescue him...

This is the medical system of this era!

However, the Prussian reserve soldiers in the front row were screaming without saying a word when they were bombarded by the shotgun. The Prussian reserve soldiers in the back row were even drowned out amid the explosions of flowering bombs...

The Prussian reserve team, whose troops were no less powerful than the first wave of attacks, collapsed under the close bombardment of hundreds of field artillery and mortar artillery!

Not to mention the sergeants and officers responsible for supervising the war, even if God descended to earth, he could not stop these frightened Prussian troops from defeating...

So, the guard infantry once again launched a bayonet charge!

Another exciting pursuit campaign.

Before the Prussian general commander in the rear could gather the first wave of defeated troops in the attack echelon, he saw the reserve team sent to defeat all the way.

Is it more than ten minutes from picking up the enemy to dispersal?

The Prussian general couldn't help but feel suspicious...

He couldn't even believe that these soldiers were trained by himself!

They lost all Prussia's face!

As a last resort, the Prussian general had to send out the last batch of reserves to catch up with the artillery team that was still moving slowly and had stopped at this time, trying to establish the last line of defense to block the impact of the Black Dragon Legion.

If the final reserve team was defeated, then this Prussian army of tens of thousands of people would be completely destroyed, and it would be almost wiped out!

The Prussian generals who witnessed the pursuit speed of the Black Dragon Legion soldiers were now afraid to take their troops to retreat with great strides, worried that they could not escape the Black Dragon Legion's feet...

A Prussian charge cavalry, holding a spear in his hand, suddenly penetrated from the flank, intending to rush into the guard infantry who was pursuing.

Although the guard infantry were always on the road to victorious charge, they were partially disconnected from the small troops behind the guards' flanks because they were charging and pursuing the remaining enemies. This Prussian cavalry saw this and rushed over at full speed under the leadership of a Prussian general.

The speed of the cavalry is still terrifying, and this is a charge cavalry that specializes in restraining infantry.

The so-called charge cavalry are light cavalry equipped with spears and sabers. They have both speed advantages and great rushing capabilities.

Of course, this kind of charge cavalry often deals with infantry units, and the confrontation between cavalry is the most powerful heavy-armed cavalry such as breastplate cavalry.

The reason is very simple. Cavalry duels mainly rely on cold weapons, while heavy armor can just restrain cold weapons.

Many heavy armored cavalry also equipped with muskets that are used immediately, commonly known as carbines. There were many types of carbines in the 21st century, but there was only one pre-equipped type in the 18th century...

Carbines are actually cavalry muskets that shorten the barrel. Because cavalry is inconvenient to load on horseback, they need to shorten the barrel and facilitate loading.

After the heavy armored cavalry has muskets, it is basically difficult for light cavalry to use kite flying tactics to shoot.

Everyone has remote attack methods, who is afraid of whom?

Therefore, the heavy armored cavalry in the era of queuing up to shoot the enemy is the king of cavalry.

However, not only is this type of heavy armored cavalry training cost high, but it is not very effective in dealing with infantry. Moreover, because the armor is too heavy, the horse speed is far less than that of ordinary cavalry, and it is easy to be targeted by artillery fire!

Therefore, the heavy armored cavalry of this era can only be regarded as the king of cavalry, not the king of all military branches, and its status has declined more than just as much as the Cold Weapon Age.

Prussia is not a wealthy country. They have few heavy armored cavalry, so they will naturally not bring all their assets this time.

This anti-French war was just a revenge and a struggle for interests for Prussia and Austria, and did not endanger their core national interests at all, so the real elites of both countries were not brought out.

The guard infantry approached the cavalry's charge, first discovered the figure of the enemy cavalry and quickly informed his officers.

Amid the gathering army posts, the guard infantry who were pursuing gave up the pursuit of the defeated enemy and quickly formed a team.

The timing of the Prussian cavalry raid was very good. They successfully curbed the continuous assaults of the guard infantry, causing most of the defeated soldiers to escape back to their own ranks.

This is the disadvantage of not having a cavalry. If a cavalry rushes out to intercept the Prussian charge cavalry at this time, the guard infantry will not need to stop and reorganize the cavalry to defend against the impact.

Naturally, the guard infantry can achieve the greatest results, and it is not impossible to even destroy the final reserves of the Prussian army in one fell swoop.

Cavalry is still of great use in the era of queuing and shooting.

The Prussian charge cavalry, who was speeding up, saw the enemy's infantry reorganized and listed hollow square formations at an incredible speed, had to turn the horse's head and turn over from the outer periphery of the hollow square formation of the guard infantry.

It takes a terrible price to use cavalry to rush into the enemy's hollow infantry formation, and the number of cavalry in Prussia is obviously less than that of the guard infantry in the Black Dragon Legion. If you dive into it, it is not certain how many cavalry can escape...

As an experienced Prussian cavalry general, he naturally would not make such a low-level mistake.

The flexibility and maneuverability of light cavalry is also fully demonstrated at this moment. The guard infantry can only watch the squadrons pass by beyond the effective range of muskets in front of their own formation!

However, this Prussian charge cavalry was obviously unwilling to return like this. They targeted hundreds of Black Dragon Legion artillery units that had just stopped!

The number of guard infantry in the artillery troops is not large, and this is the best prey in the eyes of the Prussian charge cavalry.

The disadvantages of bayonet tactics on cannons are revealed at this moment. There is naturally a reason why European powers dare not use bayonet tactics on cannons!

How will the artillery acted as the dying guard infantrymen handle this crisis?
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